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What do you do for Neuropathy itch?
Skin Health | Last Active: Nov 24 1:56pm | Replies (315)Comment receiving replies
Good evening @joannaceciliani19 .......Let me be the first to welcome you to Connect. I am very interested in your "weird" itch. I am not a health professional. However, I have just spent several years dealing with and figuring out the "itch". It almost did me in. I am so pleased to be able to wake up every morning without the "weird" itch.
First.....let's talk about the itch on part of your foot and elsewhere. That may be atopic dermatitis. If so, it will respond to the medication use. That is Dupixent! It comes as an injection pen that you easily learn to manage yourself. You inject the medication into your thigh once every two weeks. From the first day I used it August 13, 2022 until today I have not had any interior or exterior itches. Life is liveable. And that includes my scalp.
Before I discovered Dupixent, my dermatologist had me on a special scalp program that also worked very well. Now with Dupixent I don't need that program at all.
However, I will give you the information that I have. There is a special shampoo and solution that you can use. It worked very well for me for several years until I discovered Dupixent. Tomorrow I will use MyChart to get the names and dosage information for you.
I will also include the Dupixent contact information. Tonight I am already in bed and the lights are out in the house. I think everyone is sleeping.
So hang on and if for some reason you don't get my message......just holler at me..
Till tomorrow!
Chris
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Here is the notice from my dermatologist.
For the scalp itch, the shampoo was Head and Shoulders on day one, T/Sal on day two, and then your regular shampoo on day three. The solution for the scalp was Lidex solution once a night for a week, then twice weekly use as needed. Hope it works for you.
Have a wonderful Holiday. Let me know what you experience.
Chris
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Good evening @joannaceciliani19. Guess what my friend. I didn't get the information for you today regarding the scalp itch.
This will be hard to believe. However, over the weekend, somehow I did some damage to my Reverse shoulder replacement. I didn't fall or crash. It just became very painful when I moved or put pressure on that arm.
So...I thought....well, I will go to my MFR therapist and see if she can help me today. Nope...that didn;t work. She found that I had an indentation and some other new "pitch points". That is my name for the one spot that is very touchy. So she called the Orthopedic clinic to schedule an immediate imaging appointment so that she would be sure that she wasn't doing any additional damage.
Three hours later.....the physician and I were reviewing the images and checking on the "pitch points". He told her that he doubted if she could do any more damage with the MFR therapy. However, he will be getting my operative documents from Eisenhower in Palm Springs and we will meet again to see what might benefit from some readjustment. Yikes. I thought I was all done. Is this my Christmas present???? Just what is Santa thinking about?
So, I will pursue your information tomorrow. So sorry.
Stay positive. I will be back!
May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
Chris